Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sic… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sic…
- Jean Baptiste Massillon
Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work…
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole so… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole so…
Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven. - Jean Baptiste Massillon
Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so…
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities lai… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities lai…
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. - Jean Baptiste Massillon
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. - Jean Baptiste Massillon
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be hea… - Jean Baptiste Massillon
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be hea…
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